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First finds of problematic Ediacaran fossil Gaojiashania in Siberia and its origin; discussion and reply

Cai Yaoping, Hua Hong, Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev, Jose Antonio Gamez Vintaned and Andrey Yu. Ivantsov

Geological Magazine (March 2011) 148 (2): 329-333

Abstract

Y. Cai & H. Hua comment: Zhuravlev, Gamez Vintaned & Ivantsov (2009) reported the problematic Ediacaran fossil Gaojiashania annulucosta in Siberia and they considered that this is the first find of Gaojiashania outside China, since Gaojiashania had previously only been reported from the Gaojiashan Member of the middle Dengying Formation in the Ningqiang area, southern Shaanxi Province, South China. However, we believe that the so-called Siberian Gaojiashania was mis-identified, and what was described as Gaojiashania annulucosta by Zhuravlev, Gamez Vintaned & Ivantsov (2009) is more appropriately ascribed to Shaanxilithes ningqiangensis, another problematic Ediacaran fossil that has also been known from the Gaojiashan Member in Shaanxi Province of South China (Chen, Chen & Lao, 1975; Xing et al. 1984), as well as the stratigraphically equivalent Taozichong Formation in Guizhou Province (Hua, Chen & Zhang, 2004) and the Jiucheng Member (Dengying Formation) in Yunnan Province of South China (Zhu & Zhang, 2005), the Zhoujieshan Formation in Qinghai Province (Shen et al. 2007), and the Zhengmuguan Formation in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of North China (Shen et al. 2007).


ISSN: 0016-7568
EISSN: 1469-5081
Coden: GEMGA4
Serial Title: Geological Magazine
Serial Volume: 148
Serial Issue: 2
Modified Title: First finds of problematic Ediacaran fossil Gaojiashania in Siberia and its origin; discussion and reply
Affiliation: Northwest University, Department of Geology, Xian, China
Pages: 329-333
Published: 201103
Text Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, London, United Kingdom
References: 23
Accession Number: 2011-026551
Categories: Invertebrate paleontologyStratigraphy
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Annotation: For reference to original see Zhuravlev, A. Y., et al., Geological Magazine, Vol. 146, p. 775-780, 2009
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Secondary Affiliation: Paleontological Institute, RUS, Russian FederationUniversidad de Zaragoza, ESP, Spain
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2018, American Geosciences Institute. Abstract, Copyright, Cambridge University Press. Reference includes data from GeoScienceWorld, Alexandria, VA, United States
Update Code: 201115
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